2. Forging Ahead: The Striated Voyager. An African elephant, marked by the stripes of the predator, navigates a rickety vessel through the storm.
3. Bed-time-story: The Silverback’s Grace. A tender moment of paternal devotion as a gorilla reads to his child, finding beauty in the disfigured.
4. I-and-Thou: The Black Velvet Portal. Two humpback whales viewed through a wooden threshold, emerging from the deep darkness of the unconscious.
5. Daniel Wrestles with Raphael: The Triptych of the Threshold. A man faces the end of days, flanked by the healing waters of Bethesda and the struggle with the Angel.
6. House-of-the-Rising-Sun: The Yachtsman’s Vision. A surreal encounter under the George Washington Bridge with the shell-headed muse.
7. The Precious Redundancy: The Dance of Bethesda. Four shell-headed women performing a ritual of celebration before the fountain.
8. The Redemptive Deep: Jerry’s Humpback. Jerry, a soul of pure kindness, is visited by a humpback whale within the quiet hull of a sunken ship.
9. The White Keeper's Room: The Titanic Sentinel. A beluga whale peers through a portal, witnessing the frozen history of the great wreck.
10. The Windows of Redemption: Mother as Angel. A transformation of the artist’s mother into a celestial being, singing in the lost "Windows on the World" above New York Harbor.
1. The Watermelon Man: The Offering. Jerry stands within the ghost ship, offering a watermelon—a gesture of simple, eternal humanity.
12. Destruction of Myth: The Digital Memory. An encounter with cetacean intelligence, originally painted on black velvet and destroyed by nature during a flood, now resurrected as a digital artifact.